Residents of an upscale Queens neighborhood are enraged over a brazen serial squatter who moved into a local $1.1 million home — and it’s not the first time he’s pulled off the scam, according to a report.
A luxury red BMW and sporty gray Chevy Corvette were parked in the driveway of the suspected swiped house in Bayside on Sunday as a man at the home barked at a Post reporter to get off “his” property.
Accused resident con man Vernon Glass moved himself into the million-dollar home in the quiet, tree-lined community more than two years ago, after the 2018 death of elderly homeowner and longtime resident Richard Klibschon, ABC Eyewitness News reported.
Incensed locals called the cops, reached out to their elected officials and even went to court to try to boot him — to no avail.
“This is an awful situation,” local US Rep. Tom Suozzi told the outlet.
“A fraudster is wrecking the quality of life for the entire neighborhood. While it’s not a federal issue, we all need to do everything we can do to right this wrong.”
The home at 2340 205th St. had remained vacant after Klibschon, who lived alone and had no family, passed away, according to the report.
But that changed in March 2024, when neighbors first spotted the unwanted occupant. A resident told The Post on Sunday that a maintenance guy sent by the bank tried to get into the house at one point and couldn’t because the locks had been changed.
The man at the home Sunday claimed to The Post that the “only thing you should be reporting on is this racist ass block.”
The man living in the home as been described as an “illegal occupant” in court papers, with residents reporting that his presence in the quiet neighborhood makes them “increasingly apprehensive, uneasy and very concerned.”
The neighbor told The Post on Sunday, “He was staring down people.
“The neighbors are just disappointed,” the resident said. “We all feel like this is like a slap to our faces.
“You pay your taxes, you pay your mortgages, and to see somebody in here just riding a free ticket for two and a half years and there’s nothing that can be done about this — it’s just ridiculous to us,” he said.
It’s not the first squatter scam Glass has allegedly pull off, Eyewitness News noted.
Glass also is accused of moving into a vacant Nassau County, LI, home in 2018, changing the locks and renting out the property to three people for more than $9,000, ABC reported at the time.
In that case, he ended up getting kicked out and sentenced to five years probation on a misdemeanor in December 2019, the outlet said.
That’s when the squatter believed to be Glass showed up in the quiet Bayside neighborhood.
ABC reporter Dan Krauth recently approached him outside the Queens home and asked if he lived there.
“Yes, but I don’t want to be on the news,” the squatter said before rushing into the house.
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